Medical Terminology Simplified

6–52 Common surgical suffixes that refer to cuttingare summarized below.

Review and use them to complete subsequent frames related to operative procedures.

Surgical Suffix Meaning

-ectomy excision, removal

-tome instrument to cut

-tomy incision

6–53 Whenever you see a word with the word root (WR) tomin it, relate it

to an incision. Esophag/o/tomy is an incision through the wall of the

____________________.

6–54 When esophag/eal surgery necessitates an incision, the physician will ask

for an instrument called an ____________________ / _____ / __________.

6–55 A surgical procedure to remove all or, more commonly, part of the stomach

is called a ____________________ / ____________________.

6–56 Partial or total gastr/ectomy is commonly performed to treat stomach cancer.

From gastr/ectomy,identify the element that means

stomach:____________________

excision or removal:____________________

6–57 A perforated (punctured) stomach ulcer may require a partial

____________________ / ____________________.

6–58 A gastr/o/tome is an instrument to cut or incise the____________________.

6–59 When the stomach is incised, the physician uses an instrument called a

____________________ / _____ / __________.

6–60 Esophag/o/tomy is an incision of the ____________________ / _____.

6–61 Develop a word that means incision of the stomach.

____________________/ _____ / __________

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esophag/o/tome

ē-SŎF-ă-gō-tōm

gastr/ectomy

găs-TRĔK-tō-mē

gastr/ectomy

găs-TRĔK-tō-mē

gastr/o/tome

GĂS-trō-tōm

stomach

gastr

-ectomy

esophagus

ē-SŎF-ă-gŭs

esophag/us

ē-SŎF-ă-gŭs

gastr/o/tomy

găs-TRŎT-ō-mē